Safe construction.



M. MOSLBR & C. BARTELS.

SAFE CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION 11.21) NOV.12, 1013.

1,1 17,421, Patented Nov. 17,1914.

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M. MOSLER & 0. BARTELS.

SAFE CONSTRUGTTON.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, 1913.

1,117,421, Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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MOSES MOSLER, OF CINCINNATI, AND CARL BARTELS, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGN- ORS TO THE MOSLER SAFE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFE CONSTRUCTION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Moses MosLnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, and CARL B.\1rr1n.s,a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Impiovements in Safe Construction, of which the following is a specification.

In constructing massive round door safes and vaults, especially those constructed of such material as manganese steel, it is undesirable, in fitting up the face of the front wall and in fitting up the face of the door, which will be of machinable metal regardless of what may be the material of the walls and door of the safe, to have to deal with those faces while they are in conjunction with the main massive portions of the wall or door.

In our peculiar construction of round door burglar-proof safes of massive construction the faces of the door and front wall may be viewed as separable members, of comparative lightness and of machinable metal and as not forming a part of the massive construction, but rather as being separable attachable carriers for the accessories of the door and front wall. These carriers do not enter into the burglar proof character of the safe, and their removal, by violence or otherwise from the locked safe detracts in no de' gree from the security of the safe proper. To put it in other words, given the case of a burglar-proof round door safe of massive construction equipped with its usual front accessories, consisting of hinge members. cam members, etc., secured to the front of the safe body and safe door in the usual manner, the removal of these members, one by one from the locked safe, does not detract from the security offered by the safe, the removed parts not being portions of the safe proper. In our peculiar construction these accessories of the door and safe front are formed or mounted upon light facings which are separably attached to the door front and to the body front. Under this system we may have in View a massive round door safe, as one piece of construction, and apair of light facings hearing all of the front accessories of the safe and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 12, 1913.

Zatented Nov. 1'7, 1914.

Serial No. 800,478.

adapted for ready union with the main structure.

Our invention also aims at the construction of the massive door by means of thick door members secured firmly to each other to form a compound thick door, the door members being spaced apart from each other at their peripheries.

()ur invention will be readily understood from the fol lowing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which L Figure 1 is a front elevation of a safe exemplifying our present inmrovements, the type chosen for illustration being a square safe of the round door type, portions appearing in vertical section in the plane of line r: of l*igs. 2 and 4:: Fig. 2 a vertical section of the same in the plane of line a of [*jig. 1: Fig. 3 a horizontal section of a portion of the door in the plane of line I) of l igs. 1 and 2: Fig. 4. a vertical section of the general front of the safe in the plane of line (Z of .ilig. 1: and Fig. a vertical section, in the plane of line a of Fig. 1, showing a portion of the doorin somewhat modified form.

In the d 'awings:l, indicates the side *alls of a square safe or vault or vestibule, to be assumed as being of massive construction, such as manganese steel castings: 9. the stepped circular dooi.'-]'amb: 3, the fi'ont facing of the body of the safe, surrounding the door and forming a portion of the circular (loo1 '-jan1b, and carrying on its front the usual accessrn'ies: l, the front facing of the door, fitting within the front facing of the body and carrying on its front the usual accessories: 5, the fixed hinge members, carried by the body facing 3 (i, the cranehins;e: 7, the hinge-members carried by the door facing: 8, a door-member to the rear of facing 4t and having, preferably, a thickness suitable for effective heat treatment throughout, the exterior of this door-member fitting the door-jmnb: 9, another similar door-member disposed to the rear of door-member 8: 1.0, still another door-member, disposed to the rear of door-member 9: 11., a bolt-frame disposed at the rear of door-n'ieinber 10: 12, lugs projecting inwardly from portions of facing 4v and the safe door-members 8, 9 and 10: 13, lugs projecting outwardly from doormembers 8, 9 and 1.0 and the bolt-frame and engaging in front of lugs 12, the contacting faces of lugs 12 and 13 being beveled, and there being as many pairs of these lugs as judgment dictates: 1 L, lugs projecting inwardly upon the rear of door-facing 4, si1nilar in construction to lugs 12 but disposed farther in from the margin of the door: 15 111 s projecting outwardly from door-member S and cooperating with lugs 141, each pair of lugs in the entire system constituting a hooking couple: 16, spaces provided, as a matter of preference, between the contigu ous surfaces of door-members 8, 9 and 10, these spaces providing for clearance to avoid the necessity for nice fitting upon the contiguous surfaces of the door-members, and providing also for the reception of insulating filling of non-conducting character if the same should be desired: 18, the usual cam-shafts: l9, mechanism for actuating the cam-shafts: 20, hooking lugs projecting upwardly on the outer face of the safe-body, to the rear of body-facing 3: 21, lugs proj ecting downwardly on the rear of the bodyfacing and having hooking cooperation with lugs 20: 22, pins inserted in one of the hooked members of the structure and engaging behind a heck of the contiguous member to prevent disengagement of the hooks: 23 Fig. 5) open spaces between the peripheries of door-members 8, 9 and 10: and 24, points of contact between the rear of the hooks of one door-member against the front face of the door-member next to the rear.

Looking at Fig. 1 it is to be observed that hingemembers 5 and the cam-seats are carried by body-facing 3 to which they may be attached integrally or separably, and that hinge-members 7 and the bearings of the cam-shafts are carried by the front facing of the door, to which they may be attached integrally or separably.

Assuming the doormembers 8, 9 and 10 to be of manganese steel, the individual members may be of such thickness that heat treatment will be effective throughout the thickness, and the system of hooking the individual members together permits of the construction of a door of any desired total thickness effectively heat-treated throughout. In Fig. 2 it will be noted that the contact between the several door-members 8, 9 and 10, is limited to narrow bearing surfaces at the peripheries of the members and at the engaging faces of the hooking lugs. These comparatively small areas lend themselves to accurate fitting by grinding opera tion in case such a material as unmachinable manganese steel castings is used for the door-members.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 2 the main contacts between the door-members 8, 9 and 10, are at the periphery of these members, a construction preferable in many cases on account of appearance. But in Fig. 5 there is illustrated a construction in which the doormembers 8, 9, and 10 are not in contact with each other at their peripheries, the accurate positioning of the door-members relative to each other being effected by the contacts 2% between the rear portion of the hooks of one member and the front face of the next rearward member, the contact between the doormembers being thus at spots, so to speak.

Vhile the illustration shows three main door-members 8, 9 and 10, it is manifest that the number may be increased or decreased as desired. The spaces 16 between the main door-members avoids contact between the members and the necessity for accurate vorkmanship, and filling of any desired character may be applied in the spaces during the construction of the compound door. "he bolt-frame and the front door-facing will, in most all cases, be of machinable metal and they are hooked to the main doormembers in the same manner as the main door-members are hooked together. The spaces between the door-facing, the boltframe and the main door-members may be left vacant or provided with filling, as desired.

The door-facing, having been properly fitted with reference to the outer door-member 8, may be removed and completely fitted out with its accessories in the way of hingemembers, cam-shaft bearings, etc, and when completed the door-facing with its accessories may, as a complete unit, be applied to the main portions of the door and interlocked therewith by angular motion and become substantially an integral part thereof. In fitting the door-facing out with its accessories, a rather nice character of work in safe construction, it may be dealt with entirely apart from and distant from the main door.

The bodyfacing 3, having been properly fitted to the body, may be unhooked there from and dealt with separately in fitting it out with its accessories in the way of bingemembers, cam-seats, etc., and later may be secured upon the body as a unit. In the illustration the bodyfacing 3 is put into hooking engagement with the body by a downward motion, as will be apparent from Fig. 4, but it is quite immaterial whether the engaging motion be in a downward or upward or horizontal direction.

WVhen the bodyfacing 3 has been applied to the body, in ultimately erecting the safe, the application is made by movement of the bodyfacing in a right line, the body-facing interlocking with the front of the body and becoming a part thereof. When the door is closed and locked then the door prevents any-displacing movement of the body-fee ing, regardless of whether or not there may be present any other features to aid in preventing such displacement. While we have illustrated our improvements in con neotion with a round door square safe, it is to be understood that our invention contemplates vaults and vestibules as Well as safes.

We claim 1. Round door safe-construction comprising, a safe body of massive burglar-proof construction having a circular door-opening in its front Wall, a circular door of massive construction fitting and closing said dooropening, a ligl'rt body-facing disposed against the front of the body around the door-opening therein and carrying the front body accessories of the safe, a light doorfacing disposed against the front of the door and carrying the front door-accessories of the safe, and means disposed entirely to the rear of said facings for securing them to the body and door, combined substantially as set forth.

2. Round door safe-construction comprising, a safe-body of massive burglar-proof construction and having a circular dooropening in its front Wall, a circular door of massive construction fitting and closing said door-opening, a light body-facing and doorfacing carrying the front accessories of the safe, cooperating hooks upon the contiguous faces of the safe-body and body-facing and adapted for intermembering by relative movement of the two parts in a right line, and coope'ating hooking devices upon the contiguous faces of the door and door-facing and adapted for intermembering by relative movement of the door and door- .facing in an angular direction, combined substantially as set forth.

3. Round door safe-construction comprising, a circular door-facing, hinge-members carried thereby, a circular door disposed at the rear of the doorfacing, a circiunferential series of hooking devices at the front portion of the door and the rear portion of the door-facing near the peripheries of those parts, and a circumferential series of hooking devices upon the front portion of the door and the rear portion of the doorfacing near the center of those parts and concentric with the first'mentioned series of hooking devices, all of said hooking devices being adapted to interlock with each other by relative rotary motion of the doorand door-facing, combined substantially as set forth.

-i-l. Round door safe-construction comprising, a safe-body of massive bi'lrglar-proof construction having a circular door-opening in its front wall, a light body-facing carrying the front body-accessories of the safe and having a circular door-opening concentric with the door-opening in the front wall, and means disposed entirely to the rear of said body-facing and serving to secure the body-facing rigidly to the front wall of the body, combined substantially as set forth.

5. Round door safe-construction comprising, a safe-body of massive burglar-proof construction and having a circular dooropening in its front wall, a circular door of massive construction fitting and closing said door-opening, a light circular door-facing carrying the front accessories of the door and rigidly secured to the front of the door and forming the exposed outer surface of the door-structure, and means disposed to the rear of said door-facing and serving to unite the door-facing rigidly to the door, combined substantially as set forth.

MOSES MOSLER. CARL BARTELS. Witnesses as to Mosler: C. J. G'nnnsnu, DAVID BECK. Witnesses as to Bartels:

WV. M. Gonosnrrrn, Gno. JOHNSON.

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